STORIES OF HUN "FRIGHTFULNESS"
TOLD BY RETURNED PRISONERS. By TeletrraDl—Frees Asaooiatlon—Oonyrlgbl (Reo. February 8, 10.5 p.m.) London, February 7. A large party of wounded men from Germany lias reached Tilbury. One related an astonishing story of German "frightfulness." Two thousand Russian prisoners were taken to the Iriilg line in France and forced to dig trenches. They were cruelly under-fed and worked for days and nights in a famished condition. Many were killed and wounded by shell fire. Finally they were smuggled back into Germany—this suggests that- the Germans themselves were ashamed of their treatment. The Germans ordered other prisoners to build Zeppelin sliods, arid when they refused thoy were punished to the extent of a year's hard labour. Many civilians accompanied the wounded, including married women with families, and a number of governesses expelled from Germany by a recent order.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 5
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140STORIES OF HUN "FRIGHTFULNESS" Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2690, 9 February 1916, Page 5
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